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Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

May 27, 2020May 23, 2020 Anna L. Hinton

This week we are revisiting Therí A. Pickens’s new book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press, 2019). Today we

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‘Duty Beyond the Battlefield’: A New Book About Black Soldiers’ Role in Shaping Early Civil Rights

May 25, 2020June 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black soldiers, civil rights, military

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Amazonia: Environmental Knowledge In the Struggle for Black Liberation In Brazil

May 14, 2020May 11, 2020 Tianna Bruno Black Ecologies, Brazil, environment, geography, Historical Memory, South America

The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship

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Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Studies, literature

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

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